Distinguishing between smooth and rough free energy barriers in protein folding

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 49, 2009, Pages 11825-11830

  Gianni, Stefano ^a   Brunori, Maurizio ^a   Jemth, Per ^b   Oliveberg, Mikael ^c   Zhang, Mingjie ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEVRON PLOT; COMPLEX TOPOLOGY; DISCRETE TRANSITIONS; GAIN INFORMATION; GLOBULAR PROTEINS; HAMMOND EFFECT; LOCAL MAXIMUM; LOW ENERGIES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RATE-LIMITING STEPS; SMOOTH BARRIERS; TRANSITION STATE;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PDZ DOMAINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 71549123381     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901585q     Document Type: Article

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